> "Mark" == Mark H Mabry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote the following on Thu, 18 Jun 1998 12:44:29 -0400
> "AR" == Richardson,Anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote the following on Wed, 17 Jun 1998 13:52:00 -0400
Me> Okay, now we are getting to the meat of the problem. As you
Me
> "AR" == Richardson,Anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote the following on Wed, 17 Jun 1998 13:52:00 -0400
AR> 1024 is the maximum number of cylinders that may be stored in a
AR> partition table entry (10 bits). 1024 is also the maximum
AR> cylinder that can addressed using the stand
"Mark H. Mabry" wrote:
> Even though my BIOS is using LBA, and the kernel sees all
> 9.6 GB of my disk, the fdisk and cfdisk seem to use the C/H/S
> settings.
I could be wrong about this; I'm no expert.
I have a PD-CD drive, and early Linux drivers would detect and use it (I
could m
> Mark H. Mabry wrote:
> I'm having a problem partitioning my 9.6 GB harddrive on my Dell P-II
> 400. This is an EIDE drive. When I use cfdisk, it sees only 8 GB.
> I believe that this is due to a limit in cfdisk which sets the max
> number of sectors to 1024. Mine should have 1227 (approx).
>
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Mark H. Mabry wrote:
[ snip ]
: Only thing I can think of is to manually tell fdisk what my settings
: are. Any comments?
This may very well be necessary - I had to do it when I set up a 45G
RAID0 array. No big deal, grab a calculator and fire up fdisk, go into
expert mode,
> "YH" == Yamamoto Hirotaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote the following on 18 Jun 1998 04:12:59 +0900
YH> Torsten Hilbrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> LBA is linear block addressing and means that the BIOS no longer
>> use the ancient Cylinder/Sector/Head addressing scheme. It does
Torsten Hilbrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> LBA is linear block addressing and means that the BIOS no longer use
> the ancient Cylinder/Sector/Head addressing scheme. It does not harm
> large disks but it neccessary for using them as the older way of
> addressing is limited to 8GB, IIRC.
Than
On: 17 Jun 1998 23:17:51 +0900 Yamamoto Hirotaka writes:
>
> "Mark H. Mabry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Martin> Are you using the setting LBA in the BIOS? I think I do and I
Martin> have a 8.5GB disk with heads 255 sectors 63 and cylinders
Martin> 784. Those are not near any 1024 limit.
>>
>>
>
"Mark H. Mabry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Martin> Are you using the setting LBA in the BIOS? I think I do and
> Martin> I have a 8.5GB disk with heads 255 sectors 63 and cylinders
> Martin> 784. Those are not near any 1024 limit.
>
>
> Yes, LBA is enabled in the BIOS.
I know I'm askin
> "Martin" == Martin Str|mberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote the following on Tue, 16 Jun 1998 21:05:24 +0200
Mark> I'm having a problem partitioning my 9.6 GB harddrive on my
Mark> Dell P-II 400. This is an EIDE drive. When I use cfdisk, it
Mark> sees only 8 GB. I believe that th
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
:
: I'm having a problem partitioning my 9.6 GB harddrive on my Dell P-II
: 400. This is an EIDE drive. When I use cfdisk, it sees only 8 GB.
: I believe that this is due to a limit in cfdisk which sets the max
: number of sectors to 1024. Mine should h
I'm having a problem partitioning my 9.6 GB harddrive on my Dell P-II
400. This is an EIDE drive. When I use cfdisk, it sees only 8 GB.
I believe that this is due to a limit in cfdisk which sets the max
number of sectors to 1024. Mine should have 1227 (approx).
When I boot Linux it identifie
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